Disagree about the White Sox analogy. Only a few thousand people had Sportsvision. With smart tv, a huge percentage of people can watch LAFC on You Tube. Also, they are being paid to broadcast that way. The better Sox analogy was when the Fire moved to channel 5.2. Sure it was over the air, but it was not on most cable or satellite and almost nobody knew about it. That sucked and screamed small thinking.
LAFC's deal is with You Tube TV, which is a streaming service that costs $35 per month. So, it's a great deal for LAFC fans who already subscribe to You Tube TV, but a crappy one for fans who don't, and are happy with their current TV/streaming service. I would be furious if the Fire went this route.
Um...what? That Fire deal was stupid but is not comparable to the Sox. YT-TV and Sports vision -paid subscription services with limited offerings . Barely anyone Nationwide subscribes to YT-TV. It's under 1 million subscribers Nationwide and has limited channels for an inflated price. LAFC fans are furious about it . Their option to follow the team is to cut cable -lose 100+ channels and save $20 by switching- or adding $40 a month to their TV bill.
Ummm, okay. I really don't care about this at all. You win, LAFC's deal is the worst deal in history.
I was reading up on the LAFC deal when this caught my Local TV has been a tough market to crack for many MLS teams. The Galaxy, seven seasons into a league-record 10-year, $55-million contract with Spectrum SportsNet, averaged about 9,000 viewers a game last season, according to a spokeswoman for Charter Communications, which owns the cable network. and A different over-the-air TV partner, likely to be Univision affiliate KMEX, will carry LAFC's locally televised games in Spanish.
So, about 8,000 more than the average Fire game? (By the way, that does not seem like a very good return on investment)
Must be nice to downsize to a $16 million dollar house. http://www.yolandaslittleblackbook....len_bronfman_hauptman_brentwood_park_mansion/ For those who missed Yolanda’s last story, the Bronfman-Hauptmans are a low-profile but inordinately wealthy family who have long resided in Los Angeles. Our Mr. Hauptman is a Harvard MBA who was formerly a Universal Studios exec and is now the owner of the Chicago Fire, a Major League Soccer team. He is also the owner of Andell Entertainment, which has produced several big-screen feature films. However, it is Mr. Hauptman’s wife Ellen Bronfman Hauptman who has the real big bucks. This lady, y’all, is an heiress to the multi-billion dollar Seagram Companyliquor fortune. Her father, Charles Bronfman, is a legit billionaire philanthropist (according to Forbes).
Maybe they are selling the $125,000,000 complex and buying the $16,000,000 house so they can plow that extra $109,000,000 into the Chicago Fi...no, I can't say that with a straight face. Nevermind.
That house is a bright white monstrosity. I have no idea ho anyone can relax in a blinding bright interior like that. My guess is that they dont use much of it.
Couldn't find a better place to put this, so here it goes. PSA for you fine folks. If any of you are into excellent writing instruments like I am, and want a nice pen to use the next time you write a strongly worded letter to Mr. Hauptman, I might recommend this one: http://www.andersonpens.com/Retro-5...-79170553&mc_cid=2c5d51f530&mc_eid=8780da8bd3
People are still "into excellent writing instruments"??? It is a lovely pen, but at $40.00 is way more than I have spent on pens in my entire lifetime.
People love to tell me I should be........but I'm not. My current pen is a Paper Mate InkJoy 300 RT 1.0M. I only know that because I'm looking at it right now. My guess is it retails for around $0.24. Edit: I actually wasted the time to Google this, and Walmart is currently selling a 24 pack for $5.98. That's $0.249 per pen. Sometimes I truly am amazed how confidently and correctly I can talk completely out of my @SS.
I’m the guy who uses a shit pen for nine months and gets pissed when someone “borrows” it off of my desk and doesn’t return it.
Yes, when I graduated from law school, someone gave me a "nice" pen. I have no idea what I did with it, but never used it. Every few years, someone will try to give me a "nice" pen, I usually politely decline.
$40 is actually kind of on the low end of "nice" pens - just wait until you get into fountain pens with 14kt and 21kt gold nibs, or brass and copper pen bodies, or custom acrylics, or...
Oh, I know, I just think it, like most "collecting," is ridiculous. $21,300.00 This is a fountain pen, so of course it costs over $20,000.00 (You can "Book an Appointment" to view the pen) $17,800.00 If anyone can afford $17,800.00 or $21,300.00 for a friggin' pen, then their taxes are too goddamned low. THAT'S the Spirit!
Let's get completely stupid on the subject. Aurora Diamante fountain pen - $1.47 Million Caran d'Ache 1010 Diamonds Limited Edition Fountain Pen – $1 Million Could a certain someone, who is selling a $115,000,000.00 house, be able to afford one of these pens (using his wife's father's money, of course)? January 19, 2018, Mr. Hauptman is in "minimalist" office in Hollywood: "Let's see, I really need a nice pen. I've got it! Let's sell David Accam, that should just about cover it. Oh, wait! Does Aurora Diamente accept TAM and GAM? Crap, I should have asked for bitcoin."
A few years ago I needed entry into the Lake County COurthouse. Security confiscated my 2" long keychain Marks-a-Lot as a 'threat' The lawyer behind me dropped a half pound Mt. Blanc on the tray. No problem. That being said this is the worse off season ever. Hauptman builds ladders in his attic.